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The founding meeting of the Kuomintang's Taichung mayoral candidate Jiang Qichen's general election was held. KMT Chairman Cheng Li-wen was present in person to support the campaign, but other big names in the party such as Han Guoyu, Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan were not present.
Kuomintang Chairman Cheng Lai-wen (centre) gave a speech at the founding meeting of Taichung mayoral candidate Jiang Qichen. (Photo by reporter Liao Yaodong)
The inaugural meeting of the KMT's Taichung mayoral candidate Jiang Qichen was held in the morning at the prime location of the 7th phase of the Municipal North 1st Road. Tour buses were mobilized in Taichung District 29. The host announced at 9:10 a.m. that more than 10,000 people were present. KMT Chairman Cheng Li-wen went on stage alone to deliver a speech. Big figures in the party such as Han Guoyu, Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan were not accompanied, and Jiang Qichen was not accompanied on stage.
Cheng Lai-wen called for "KMT home run" and was accompanied on the stage by Li Qianlong, vice chairman and secretary-general of the Kuomintang. Han Guoyu, Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan were not with her, nor was the "protagonist" Jiang Qichen. Cheng Lai-wen's speech targeted the Democratic Progressive Party's Taichung mayoral candidate He Xinchun, criticizing He Xinchun's claim that "6,000 factories were closed" in the Dali and Taiping constituencies. The problem lies in the long-term ideological governance of the DPP, which only wants to engage in struggle every day and not the economy.
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Cheng Lai-wen criticized that the DPP has been causing chaos everywhere and has been pretending to be stupid for too long. It shut down nuclear power last year and restarted it this year. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that Taiwan owes electricity, owes electricity, and owes electricity. The DPP spends a lot of money saying it wants to fight for AI, but small and medium-sized enterprises can see it but cannot eat it. Coupled with the extreme and dangerous cross-strait policies, the liquidation of internal feuds will divide and hollow out Taiwan.
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